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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Samuel Johnson

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Evidence One Liner Power Truth
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Health Moral Preserve Religious Social Virtue
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Crime Evil Himself Ignorance Learning Proper
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Conscience Deep Fear God Man Rise Shame Wisdom
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Better Choice Death Live Rich
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Best Deserve Ignorance Insult Motivational Punishment
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Knowledge Wisdom

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